Tag: Quiz: Narnia

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 14th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.”

The Screwtape Letters XI
(Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Puddleglum is based on what person is Lewis’s life?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 10th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Present Concerns, an essay collection, came out on this day (July 10) in 1986. At the time all 19 essays had not previously been collected.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The knight…is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.”

The Necessity of Chivalry
(Available in Present Concern published 7/10/1986)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the last king of Narnia?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 7th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Mere Christianity was first published on this day (July 7th) in 1952.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.”

Mere Christianity
(Published in 7/7/1952)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

If you consider the order they were first published, what do you first notice about The Silver Chair that is different from the previous three stories?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Second Edition of Studies in Words was released in July 6, 1967 with three new words/chapters.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The poet’s route to our emotions lies through our imaginations.”

Studies in Words, 2nd Edition
(Published in 7/6/1967)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What one-legged creatures are found during the Dawn Treader voyage?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 30th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s book review of “The Allegory of the ‘Faerie Queen'” was published in the 6/11/60 issue of The Cambridge Review.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler.”

Letters to An American Lady
(Published in he UK June, 1969)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“All right, all right, You needn’t shout. I’m not so deaf as all that. What do you mean by coming here to tell me that nobody’s been killed? Why should anyone have been killed?”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

First and Second Things was first published June 27, 1942 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.”

Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/26/1952
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Puddleglum is what type of creature?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 23rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch, today (6/23) in 1948) and was revised and reprinted in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.”

The Screwtape Letters VIII
(Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which book from The Chronicles of Narnia did Lewis share the galley proofs of to his friends, the Inklings?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 19th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Membership” was published in the June 1945 issue of Sobornost. Previously it was a talk given in February to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except in so far as it is related to how He thinks of us.”

The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of the cousin who visits Narnia for the first time in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”

The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What animals helped to freed Aslan in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Released today (6/9) in 1966 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. It collects various essays by Lewis on the specialized topic.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The human soul is not the seeker but the sought: it is God who seeks, who descends from the other world to find and heal Man; the parable about the Good Shepherd looking for and finding the lost sheep sums it up.”

Edmund Spenser, 1552–99
(Republished in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature on 6/9/1966)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who were the crew of the Dawn Treader searching for?
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